setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Aug 26 10:16:00 GMT 2014


On Aug 26 13:53, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > So, if anybody wants to take a stab at setup and revamp it, feel free.
> > The only requirements are, it should still be able to utilize the
> > setup.ini file created on cygwin.com, it should still be able to work
> > the mirror list provided by cygwin.com, and it should still provide a
> > GUI and a command line.  Everything else is open for renewal.
> 
> You might add "should be native application" and "should compile with Cygwin
> provided toolchain". 
> Else it'll be an unbearable nightmare to support.

Doesn't that go without saying?


Corinna

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